Molti genitori lo sanno, le feste dei bambini possono essere momenti davvero molto impegnativi. Durante i preparativi si deve pensare a soddisfare non solo i desideri del proprio figlio ma anche degli amici e dei rispettivi genitori. Mettere in preventivo una notevole spesa economica potrebbe risolvere ogni problema ma non è una garanzia di successo. Questo volume offre idee e suggerimenti utili e divertenti per organizzare pomeriggi per bambini dagli uno ai dieci anni. Con semplicità e creatività, si può rendere indimenticabile ogni festa dei propri figli, senza intaccare il proprio conto in banca. Consigli per graziosi pensierini per gli invitati, ricette e molto altro per una festa in compagnia.

L'adolescenza è un'età in cui non sempre le ragazze si sentono come vorrebbero: le trasformazioni fisiche stancano, le grandi domande si fanno assillanti e abbattono il morale. Ecco allora un libro pieno di consigli e trucchi per essere sempre splendenti come un raggio di sole. Età di lettura: da 12 anni.

'Era come se la Vergine Maria fosse discesa dal cielo direttamente da Disneyland.' Così Federico Fellini descriveva l'arrivo di Ingrid Bergman a Roma, nel 1949. La diva svedese, garanzia di successo per i produttori cinematografici americani, giungeva in Italia per girare un film ma di lì a poco si sarebbe innamorata del regista, Roberto Rossellini, separandosi dal primo marito e suscitando scandalo in tutto il mondo. Da esempio di pura bellezza a simbolo del peccato, subito esiliata da Hollywood. Che lei, però, avrebbe saputo riconquistare. Non mancano le scelte coraggiose, le battaglie combattute, le passioni vissute senza nascondersi, nell'avventura umana di una delle interpreti più amate della storia del grande schermo, che qui lascia cadere tutte le maschere imposte dai personaggi incontrati nella sua carriera. Intrecciando le sincere e sorprendenti confessioni dell'attrice con i ricordi di numerosi interpreti del mondo del cinema - da Cary Grant a Liv Ullmann, da Anthony Quinn a Michelangelo Antonioni, con un ruolo speciale per una delle figlie della Bergman, Isabella - Charlotte Chandler traccia il ritratto inedito di una donna che fece innamorare Alfred Hitchcock e sfidò il carisma di Ingmar Bergman.

You've tried blind dates, online mates, tête-à-têtes, and waiting for fate. Maybe it's time to add a little Voodoo power to your quest for red-hot romance or lasting love.

With its emphasis on love and freedom, the passionate spiritual practice of Voodoo has much to offer those seeking romance. In Va-Va-Voodoo, author Kathleen Charlotte provides a unique and potent blend of Voodoo magic (or wanga) and relationship expertise.  

You'll meet a few of Voodoo's most helpful spirits in matters of love and happiness-Erzulie, Ogoun, La Sirène, Baron, and Legba-and learn how to work with their energy to attract a lover, find 'the one,' keep a relationship steamy, or recover from heartbreak. Along with down-to-earth relationship tips on communication, self-esteem, intimacy, sex, break-ups, and forgiveness, Va-Va-Voodoo includes a colorful array of tried-and-true Voodoo magical wisdom and spells, including:

“If beauty is truth, is ugliness falsehood and deception? If all art need concern itself with is beauty, what need have we to explore in our literature the nature and consequences of ugliness?” In Plain and Ugly Janes, Charlotte Wright defines and explores the ramifications of a new character type in twentieth-century American literature, the “ugly woman,” whose roots can be traced to the Old Maid/Spinster character of the nineteenth century. During the 1970s, stories began to appear in which the ugly woman is a figure of power—heroic not in the traditional old maid's way of quiet, passive acceptance, but in a way more in keeping with the active, masculine definition of heroic behavior. Wright uses these stories to discuss the nature and definitions of ugliness and the effects of female ugliness on both male and female literary characters in the works of a range of American authors. Wright concludes that the ugly woman character allows American authors to explore the ironies and inequalities inherent in the beauty system.

One of the most popular but controversial sex acts is explored in this new guide.

Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour-saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and discontent among his workers. Robert considers marriage to the wealthy and independent Shirley Keeldar to solve his financial woes, yet his heart lies with his cousin Caroline, who, bored and desperate, lives as a dependent in her uncle's home with no prospect of a career. Shirley, meanwhile, is in love with Robert's brother, an impoverished tutor - a match opposed by her family. As industrial unrest builds to a potentially fatal pitch, can the four be reconciled? Set during the Napoleonic wars at a time of national economic struggles, Shirley is an unsentimental yet passionate depiction of conflict between classes, sexes and generations.
In her introduction, Lucasta Miller discusses Charlotte Bronte's life at the time she wrote Shirley, and the novel's tone, language and treatment of social and political issues, especially the 'woman question' and industrial tensions. This edition also includes further reading, an appendix and notes.

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships.

Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include


* customs, values, and traditions
* historical, religious, and political background
* life at home
* leisure, social, and cultural life
* eating and drinking
* do's, don'ts, and taboos
* business practices
* communication, spoken and unspoken


"Culture Smart has come to the rescue of hapless travellers." Sunday Times Travel

"... the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries." Global Travel

"...full of fascinating-as well as common-sense-tips to help you avoid embarrassing faux pas." Observer

"...as useful as they are entertaining." Easyjet Magazine

"...offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world." New York Times

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships.

Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include


* customs, values, and traditions
* historical, religious, and political background
* life at home
* leisure, social, and cultural life
* eating and drinking
* do's, don'ts, and taboos
* business practices
* communication, spoken and unspoken


"Culture Smart has come to the rescue of hapless travellers." Sunday Times Travel

"... the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries." Global Travel

"...full of fascinating-as well as common-sense-tips to help you avoid embarrassing faux pas." Observer

"...as useful as they are entertaining." Easyjet Magazine

"...offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world." New York Times

An in-depth yet accessible survey of figure painting's renaissance in the contemporary art world.

SECRETS VOLUME 16:FORBIDDEN DESIRES 0-9754516-6-9 / 978-0-9754516-6-3 FEATHERSTONE, CHARLOTTE Seduction of the Muse: He is the Dark Lord, the mysterious author who pens the erotic tales of an innocent woman's seduction. She is his muse, the woman he watches from the dark shadows, the woman whose dreams he invades at night—the only woman who can reach through his darkness and love him, scarred body and soul. GILMOORE, SHERI BUNKO Life is but a roll of the dice. A story about the masks people use to obtain their darkest, most basic, desires – love and sex. Tu Tran has a dilemma: which man will she go home with tonight? Forced to decide between Jack, a man, who promises to share every aspect of his life with her, or Dev, the man, who hides behind a mask and only offers night after night of erotic sex. Tu is torn between what everyone tells her she wants and what she knows she truly needs. Will she take the gamble of the dice and choose the man, who can see behind her own mask and expose her true desires? EDEN, CYNTHIA Never Enough For the last three weeks, Abby McGill has been playing with fire. She has become Jake Steele's lover, and bad-boy Jake has taught her the true meaning of desire. Abby knows she has to end her relationship with him—Jake is her father's worst enemy, the man who almost destroyed McGill Properties. But Jake isn't about to let the woman he wants walk away from him, and, even if he has to use a bit of sensuous blackmail, he will keep his lady, because he just can't get enough of Abby… GAEL, CHEVON Hide and Seek 'Millionaire's son Kyle DeLaurier ditches his trophy-fiance in favor of a tropical paradise full of tall, tanned, topless females. Private eye, Darcy McLeod, is on the trail of this runaway groom. Together they sizzle while playing Hide and Seek with their true identities. But will destiny send Kyle back to the altar, or into Darcy's arms for good?'

Life is rising up to meet us at every moment. The question is: Are we there to meet it or not? Diane Rizzetto presents a simple but supremely effective practice for meeting every moment of our lives with mindfulness, using the Zen precepts as tools to develop a keen awareness of the motivations behind every aspect of our behavior—to 'wake up to what we do'—from moment to moment. As we train in mindfulness of our actions, every situation of our lives becomes our teacher, offering priceless insight into what it really means to be happy. It's a simple practice with transformative potential, enabling us to break through our habitual reactions and to see clearly how our own happiness and well-being are intimately, inevitably connected to the happiness and well-being of everyone around us.

Contracts in Counselling & Psychotherapy, Second Edition is a practical guide to an essential area of professional knowledge and skills. It provides a unique and informative guide to the nature of counseling contracts, why they are needed and how they are made. For the Second Edition, the book has been thoroughly updated to take account of the BACP ethical framework. New chapters have been added covering legal aspects and making contracts with trainees.

 

From acclaimed author-illustrator Charlotte Voake comes a sprightly tale about twins that doubles as an ode to individuality — and a celebration of sibling bonds.

Hello, Charlotte! Hello, Simon! Charlotte and Simon are twins, but they couldn't be more different. Charlotte likes to build things, and Simon likes to knock things down. Simon likes to draw shapes and patterns over and over again, and Charlotte likes to copy the numbers on the clock. Charlotte and Simon don't even look much alike! But whether upside down or right side up, Charlotte likes Simon just the way he is, and Simon likes Charlotte just the way she is — making this sibling pair truly two of a kind.

After moving to Copper Harbor on Michigan's Upper Peninsula to live in Fort Wilkins in 1844, ten-year-old Josette proceeds to make friends with everyone she meets, especially Maria, an Ojibwa Indian, who teaches Josette many new skills to help her adjust to her new home.After moving to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to live in Fort Wilkins in 1844, ten-year-old Josette proceeds to make friends with everyone, especially Maria, an Ojibwa Indian, who teaches Josette many new skills to help her adjust to her new home.

A collection of poems by the well-loved and award-winning children's author is at turns playful, humorous, and poignant with charming, colorful illustrations that bring the words to life.

'It's Only a Movie is the best book ever written about my father. It really is amazing.' -Patricia Hitchcock North by Northwest. Psycho. Rear Window. The Birds. Vertigo. When it comes to murder and mayhem, shock and suspense, the films of Alfred Hitchcock can not be surpassed. For this book, Charlotte Chandler interviewed Hitchcock, his wife, daughter, film crew members, and many of the stars who appeared in his films, including Kim Novak, Janet Leigh, Cary Grant, Tippi Hedren and James Stewart. Throughout the book, Chandler shares Hitchcock's wit and wisdom. When actors took themselves too seriously, he would remind them, 'it's only a movie.' Chandler introduces us to the real Hitchcock, a devoted family man and notorious practical joker, who made suspenseful thrillers mixed with subtle humor and tacit eroticism.

A girl is terrified of her older sister's dual personality. A boy adjusts to his life with two mothers. A father visits his son on death row. These are stories of today's families as they really are.

Noted anthologist Michael Cart has asked celebrated young adult authors the question 'What does 'family' mean today?' The ten resulting stories provide illuminating -- and surprising -- answers. Here family is defined by the connections between all kinds of people -- and the necessary noise they make.